{"id":173,"date":"2007-01-18T22:21:28","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T06:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=173"},"modified":"2013-02-07T17:59:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:59:35","slug":"in-the-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/18\/in-the-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"in the studio…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday afternoon I was in the studio with eight other string colleagues to play a backing track for one of the new songs on Pink Martini’s upcoming, highly anticipated third album.\u00c2\u00a0 Recording is an interesting process.\u00c2\u00a0 A friend who has done a lot of the really high-class movie work in the LA studios described recording as 90 percent crashing boredom and 10 percent outright terror.\u00c2\u00a0 The boredom is that you spend quite a long time watching the engineer setting up the mics, running cable and checking levels.\u00c2\u00a0 You run through the chart a couple of times, then you must do everything you normally do, but perfectly, and often many times in a row.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a nice change of pace from the orchestral rehearsal, where you have time to work out any passages that you didn’t fully shed at home during the rehearsals.\u00c2\u00a0 At concerts, mistakes are at a minimum, but since we hear in a linear fashion, things that do happen recede into memory pretty quickly, and the overall impression of the interpretation is what is left in the mind of the listener.
\nThe recording situation for this session was unique to my experience.\u00c2\u00a0 Rather than recording to a hard drive, they were using what looked like 3 inch tape stock for the recording, and the machine probably was running at 24 feet per second, so there was a limited amount of material that could be kept for editing.\u00c2\u00a0 An added wrinkle was that the vocalist, China Forbes<\/a>, was doing the track live along with us in a vocal booth, with Thomas Lauderdale valiantly donning his conducting hat and trying to keep us with her and her with us.\u00c2\u00a0 It took a while to get the hang of it, but I think we got a good result.\u00c2\u00a0 Word is it might be the first track on the new album, but these things have a way of changing as the production gets further along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday afternoon I was in the studio with eight other string colleagues to play a backing track for one of the new songs on Pink Martini’s upcoming, highly anticipated third album.\u00c2\u00a0 Recording is an interesting process.\u00c2\u00a0 A friend who has done a lot of the really high-class movie work in the LA studios described recording […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[55,23],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-orchestra","tag-pink-martini"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-2N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2609,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/30\/pink-martini-concerts-almost-sold-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":173,"position":0},"title":"pink martini concerts almost sold out","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Word from Elaine Calder is that the series of three Pink Martini concerts this coming week (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday evenings) have sold in excess of $500,000 worth of tickets.\u00c2\u00a0 Amazing!\u00c2\u00a0 It really is a tremendous gift to the Oregon Symphony that Thomas Lauderdale decided to use the Oregon Symphony to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "the orchestra world"","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":815,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/27\/columbus-recording-its-own-memorial\/","url_meta":{"origin":173,"position":1},"title":"columbus recording its own memorial","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Sad, but true: Douglas Fisher Member, Columbus Symphony Orchestra President, Local 103, AFM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 26, 2008 Columbus Symphony Musicians Vote To Allow Live Recording Next week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Columbus Symphony Orchestra program will be recorded live for the international recording company Denon, which will release it on compact disc.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "labor issues"","block_context":{"text":"labor issues","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/labor-issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2604,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/29\/pink-martini-and-the-oregon-symphony\/","url_meta":{"origin":173,"position":2},"title":"pink martini and the oregon symphony","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"David Stabler has put together a video feature about this weekend's upcoming Oregon Symphony\/Pink Martini live concert recording sessions for an album due out in 2010. 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